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SUBMITTER: Engsbro AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6540646 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20190501 21
We describe a ceftriaxone-resistant <i>Salmonella</i> Typhi bacteraemia in a pregnant woman returning from a family visit in Pakistan. Whole genome sequencing confirmed similarity to a Pakistani outbreak clone. Pregnancy and unawareness of this outbreak delayed appropriate antibiotic therapy. Concurrently, we detected faecal carriage of a carbapenemase-producing <i>Escherichia coli.</i> Awareness of the ongoing outbreak should affect empiric treatment of typhoid fever and hygiene precautions in ...[more]